Helmetta, NJ
How exposed is Helmetta to wildfire?
USFS scores Helmetta at the 60th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 653 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Helmetta at the 59th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 27.7% of Helmetta's 653 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 72.3% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Helmetta ranks
Helmetta's risk sits at a similar level relative to New Jersey (69th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (60th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Helmetta ranks 12,519 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,166 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Jersey alone, it ranks 215 of 700 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Jersey on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Helmetta
Helmetta's high rating (60th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Hardening a home in Helmetta
Helmetta's 72.3% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Helmetta's 60th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Helmetta, see the exposure-zones guide.